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The Eagle Has Landed

1976

John Sturges

Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence ...

6.6

2,915

War. Thriller 1943, The war is entering its final stages and Germany is teetering on the brink of defeat. An increasingly unhinged Hitler, orders a mission to have British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill kidnapped and brought to Germany. The plan seems ludicrous in the extreme, but a message sent from a German spy in the Norfolk countryside makes one German officer realize that such a mission may just feasible.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A good old-fashioned adventure movie that is so stuffed with robust incidents and characters that you can relax and enjoy it without worrying whether it actually happened or even whether it's plausible"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Director Sturges is an excellent craftsman and, with the help of a very good cast, manages to make the proceedings entertaining"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Michael Caine as a Nazi and Donald Pleasance as Himmler...what more could you want?"	POS

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